This blog is an exploration of life purpose -- why we are here; what matters. It examines the spiritual tasks and truths that help us navigate, to do what we came here to do. Despite our amnesia. Despite pain and fear and loss. In the garden of shadow and light we cling to the day and lose it. This blog is about seeing through the dark.

Friday, August 17, 2012

Number Sixty Four

The sun rises. Children think of it as a person; they give it two dots for eyes, and a smile. They understand something -- that consciousness can live in things. It can animate matter -- any matter. Consciousness learns from rocks -- from states of deep inactivity. It learns from moving at the speed of light, from going in circles, from endlessly exploding.

The sun rises. And in the child's drawing occupies a place in the sky. The child draws lines radiating from the sun, a symbol of heat, of the intention to warm and give life. The child draws the eyes open -- because the sun is awake.